N° 1 2008 February/March
01/02/08 Metropolis M
Chinese art is immensely popular. In only a few years, a market has arisen in Beijing and Shanghai that doubles in size every few years. One artist after the other is making a fortune, buying a luxury car and moving into an upscale neighbourhood. While scores of exhibitions of Chinese art are opening in the West in anticipation of the Olympic Games, METROPOLIS M sent the following provocation to four critics, curators and artists: Is the art market killing all creativity in Chinese art?
Melt, Love, Protest Towards a theory of psychedelia
01/02/08 Lars Bang Larsen
From flower power to punk – pyschedelia comes in many guises. Its multiplicity of forms is part of what inspires the fascination for this movement that continues to this day. In 2005 and 2006 there was a large retrospective exhibition in Frankfurt and Liverpool called Summer of Love. Lars Bang Larsen, currently busy with his doctoral research, is a specialist on the subject. METROPOLIS M asked him to expound upon the deeper meaning of the movement.
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A self-created stage and performance in Tate Modern, a complex historical installation and a film in Docking Station at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam: the work of Ulla von Brandenburg (Karlsruhe, 1974) is currently hot. The art of this Paris and Hamburg-based artist focuses on the meaning of gesture, on movement, arrest and repetition. It is theatrical to the core. A talk with the artist in her studio in Paris.
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Yvonne Rainer is considered by many to be the most important choreographer of the 1960s. More than Lucinda Childs or Trisha Brown, she is the one who renewed dance and inspired countless visual artists. Her famous choreographies have recently been performed by a new generation of artists. Rainer herself has directed performances in New York and Kassel.
Waiting for a Shadow The City as Tableau Vivant
01/02/08 Nele Wynants
If theatre-makers Lotte van den Berg and Benjamin Verdonck and visual artist Pauline Oltheten have something in common, it is their partiality to street choreography. In the spirit of the Situationists, they discover the poetry of everyday life, which they record and circumspectly imitate or incorporate in a direction of their own.
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